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July 31, 2006
Swimming Dizzy!
I was not looking forward to my swim this morning because today was the first day we couldn't use the nice 50 meter pool but instead were kicked out to the small, hot 25 yard warmup pool. Yuck. The truth was though, it wasn't that bad. A tad crowded yes. A tad warm yes. But otherwise just fine. I felt pretty dizzy from all the turns - I felt like I was hitting the wall every 10 seconds! But prior to starting with this masters team I ALWAYS swam in a pool like this so I knew I could survive just fine.
Regardless, I swam 3300 yards total including a 900 yard warmup and a 400 yard cooldown. The main set was 500,400,300,200,100 descending (coach had some fancy word for how we were supposed to do the repeats but I've forgotten it and it basically meant swim each repeat faster). Each repeat had a 45-60 second rest. Then we swam a hard 500. These are my favorite kind of workouts, longer and slower. I actually even swam up a lane (with faster people) and did fine. Swimming with that same group of people for fast 100s would be very tough for me though.
A couple observations...swimming long repeats in a 25 yard pool = not keeping very good track of how many laps one has swam. I lost track about 10 times. Good thing I was not leading the workout. Also, swimming yards vs meters? Yeah - big difference!! I usually swim 1:30-1:35 100s in the 50 meter pool depending on the length of the interval. Today I swam my first 100 of the first 500 in 1:20. Whoa Nelly! Now I feel fast! :)
So that was today. I got my workouts for the week from coach last night and boy was I surprised! Very light week and I even have Friday off - but I guess this makes sense since my biggest race is coming up Sunday. I'm getting nervous already!
Summary for last week (since I forgot to do it Saturday)
Sunday - off
Monday - 3500 meter swim w/4x(300,200,100), core/feet exercises
Tuesday - 3000 meter swim (off stroke day) in am, ~30 mile cycling w/15 mile crit in pm, 2x25 pushups and 2x100 crunchers
Wednesday - 45 min on trainer w/3x6 min in big gears in am, 55 min run w/3x6 min up-tempo in pm, core/feet exercises
Thursday - 3000 meter swim w/4x(4x50,3x100), 2x25 pushups, 2x100 crunchers
Friday - 30 min run w/6x20 second uphill striders
Saturday - Johnstown YMCA triathlon - 400 yard swim, 35K bike, 5K run (1:27:05)
Sunday - core/feet exercises only
Posted by beth at July 31, 2006 3:48 PM
Comments
i'm sure you will be great on you race this Sunday... also an awesome job doing a 100 at 1:20...
Posted by: Kranky C Dale at August 1, 2006 8:35 AM